Texas SUV Crash Leaves 5 Children Dead - 9 of 12 in Vehicle Ejected

At around 2:15 Monday afternoon, a large SUV crashed in East Texas, ejected 9 passengers.

A green GMC Envoy carrying 12 passengers was on its way to Splash Kingdom in Canton, TX when the vehicle rolled off the Interstate 20 towards a frontage road. As the vehicle flipped, nine of the passengers were ejected from the vehicle.

The driver, Federico Esquivel Acuna, was one of only seven to survive the crash. Three adults were in the car – Acuna, his wife, Estela Acuna, 34, and her sister, Elida Jaimes, 24. The wife and sister were transported to ETMC in Tyler, TX.